OUR VISION: For each neonatal caregiver to understand the tremendous impact they have on the infants and families they serve, and to provide care accordingly.

Our portfolio of instructional Videos increase the knowledge and skill of healthcare providers, while giving parents an enhanced understanding, ability, and ease in caring for their infant. Videos are available in both English & Spanish for parents and all videos can be purchased as DVDs or licensed for hospital intranet viewing!

Neonatal Touch & Massage Certification (NTMC)™

NTMC is an exclusively neonatal, one-of-a-kind certification for neonatal healthcare providers. It combines a holistic, neonatal and systems theory approach to massage, with an emphasis on families and nurturing opportunities, while elevating the standard of care that neonatal caregivers provide in their daily practice.

Seminars, Workshops & On-Line Education

Creative Therapy Consultants provides innovative educational opportunities both on-line and in person. Participants are able to change practice and implement new techniques immediately upon returning to their NICU. Best of all, the programs can be completely customized to meet your NICU’s needs!

TESTIMONIALS

Loved it – Loved your teaching style and knowledge. Thank you for sharing your passion with the world and making the NICU a better place! Wonderful course, wonderful presenter, wonderful experience! It’s very difficult to find an advanced course specifically for the NICU and this course delivered!!

Christina Dougherty, SLP-CCCSt. Louis, NTMC Candidate

OMG! What an amazing day!! You were absolutely amazing and I appreciate everything you had to say. I learned so much today. I thought I was doing things correctly, but I learned today that I wasn’t.

Stephanie Wrobel, RT

I thought the webinars were amazing! There is so much information I want to incorporate into my unit. I have already made changes in my practice. The content was excellent and very applicable. I really liked the videos so I could really see what was going on with the babies.

Sunny Sprague, RNSt. Louis NTMC Candidate

Excellent training experience: Presenters were so positive and it was evident that they have a contagious passion for giving the best care to our littlest humans. I feel empowered to better care for my patients and their families.

Danielle Brinkmeier, RN

I really enjoyed your style of teaching/presentation, including hands on, video and a complete handout. I appreciate the collaboration for all the disciplines. Continue the good work!

Christine Jordan, SLP

This course was so helpful. I appreciate that it encompasses several different approaches/tools with 1 common goal-to deliver the appropriate touch/massage to a baby that will produce the best possible developmental outcome. Plus it was great fun! Much fun! Really brought things together for me. This program really brings things together for me. Love it and it really excites me to get back and get to work!

EVENTS

2018 Coming to an End

We have been busy the last few months of 2018! We presented Neuroprotective Strategies for the Bedside RN at the 13th Annual Charlotte Regional Neonatology Symposium and the Keynote presentation Neuroprotective Care: A Team Approach at the Development Care Conference in Atlanta, GA along with a presentation on Evidence-Based Neonatal Caregiving. We recommend you try attending one or both of these conferences next year as they are very interdisciplinary and collaborative with relevant neonatal topics. It was great seeing so many NTMC Professionals at both conferences!

We conducted our last Neonatal Touch & Massage Certification (NTMC) for the year in La Crosse, WI. It was a pleasure meeting the 32 neonatal RNs, OTs, PTs and SLPs that were certified as NTMNT or NTMTC! We have 12 NTMCs scheduled for 2019 across the country and into Canada! Click here for more locations and details. We would love to have you join our NTMC Family!

As 2018 comes to an end we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

NTMC in Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Colorado

August 25 & 26, 2018 | Boston, MA

September 15 & 16, 2018 | Oklahoma City, OK

September 28 & 29, 2018 | Colorado Springs, CO

We are so excited for all of the new neonatal professionals we are adding to our NTMC Family in just 5 weeks! The Hands-On Training in Boston was great and so exciting to be surrounded by such a passionate group of NICU RNs, OTs, PTs, and SLPs. We cannot wait to meet everyone in Oklahoma and Colorado! Be sure to check out more details about our last Certification in 2018 in LaCrosse, WI and all of the fun places we’re heading in 2019 like Florida, California, and Illinois. Applications for all 2019 locations are open now! Apply and Learn more here!

Holding, Handling, & Positioning

June 27, 2018 | Newburgh, IN

We recently had the pleasure of visiting The Women’s Hospital in Newburgh, IN for the second time to provide a customized program for 45 neonatal nurses, therapists, RTs and neonatologists. This program was designed specifically for their hospital and included the Neonatal On-Line Education (NOLE), which consists of 8 on-line webinars ranging from brain and sensory development to pain in the NICU. Following NOLE staff attended a 4 hour training focused on handling, positioning, and skin-to-skin holding with a lab component focused on hands-on skill development. Revisiting The Women’s Hospital to provide this program ensures their staff continue to have the most current knowledge and hands-on skills for optimal neuroprotective, family-centered, developmental care. Learn more about how you can create a customized program for your unit HERE!

Our Trip Out West

June 8 – 9, 2018 | Issaquah, WA NTMC

June 11, 2018 | Mountain View, CA

June 12, 2018 | Walnut Creek, CA

Creative Therapy Consultants had the pleasure of visiting Sweedish Medical Center to complete our THIRD Neonatal Touch & Massage Certification in Washington since 2014. As always, Washington was full of passionate and influential nurses and therapists ready to enhance the neuroprotective care provided in their units. And of course, visiting California to provide two Infant-Driven Feeding: From Foundation to Implementation programs was wonderful. Check out where else you can find Creative Therapy Consultants for the rest of 2018 here!